Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis (defended by criminal lawyer Fabio Fulgeri) has been acquitted of charges of using false invoices for non-existent transactions in the investigation into the salaries of players' agents.
Alessandro Moggi was instead sentenced to one year (suspended sentence) for the affair linked to the sale of Lavezzi (for which the statute of limitations was declared), for a consultancy provided in the transfer of Pocho from Napoli to Paris Saint Germain, for an alleged false declaration.
For the story of the agents of footballers paid by football clubs, the judges of the seventh criminal section of the court of Naples, president Sandro Ciampaglia - as Il Mattino anticipates - have also acquitted Claudio Lotito (defended by criminal lawyers Carlo Di Casola and Gianmichele Gentile); Adriano Galliani (defended by the late Niccolò Ghedini), Andrea Della Valle (defended by the lawyer Francesco Picca) and Luca Campedelli (defended by lawyers Luigi Sena and Daniele Ripamonti).
The investigation seven years ago shook the world of football with 64 notices of investigation among presidents, agents and footballers, as well as searches and seizures by the Guardia di Finanza in the offices of football clubs.
The crimes charged to the suspects were the issuing and use of invoices for non-existent services dating back to the period between 2009 and 2013. According to the investigators, the fraud mechanism consisted in making the work of the attorneys appear to have been carried out in the sole interest of the companies to which they fictitiously invoiced their intermediation services.
In this way, clubs could deduct from their taxable income the expenses that were for the benefit of their agents, and players could not declare certain benefits received from clubs.
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